WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 24, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 9:01pm WR: Halo.
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	9:01pm Charles: Alright, new show!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:01 Greetings!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 As usual, great to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 One of my fave, short-run shows I have in the hopper.
	9:03pm Cp304: Heya Austin
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:03 Greetings, Cp304! It's been a little while...
	9:04pm Charles: Three of the Original Four behind us. Chandu is eternal.
	9:04pm Mr Fab: Right on, been looking forward to this. Did Veronica Lake play her in the movies or sumthin?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 That would be kind of funny, to just keep running chandu, over and over again, until the end of time?
	9:05pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Werk and stuff
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 I don't think there was ever a film or TV version of Candy, but... there should have been.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:05 "Same. As. It. Ever. Was..."
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: So, in the first few minutes, the bartender assumed she was a "Lady of The Night." This show is a little... dark sometimes.
	9:06pm Cp304: A good ole tonic always get ya right
	9:07pm Charles: Digging the music.
	9:08pm Cp304: ↳ Charles @9:07 Those organs
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Candy Matson featured LIVE ORGAN for each episode, but these were performed live, they captured on transcription disc. However... only 14 of the 92 aired episodes exist in the modern era. I'm trying to track down some of the scripts that we don't have recordings of... I think we should do readings of them for Pledge Drives!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: "I already have a sponsor." The first of many lines that break the 4th wall in this show.
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I just asked because that looks like Veronica Lake in the pic there.
	9:11pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Add live organ to the mix and that's easily worth a Y3K pledge!
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Max Factor must have paid well for that line
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 I believe that's supposed to be Natalie... but sometimes the internet can be very misleading.
	9:12pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Dang Austin
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: All 92 episodes of this show were written, produced, and directed by Monty Masters... the husband of the star of the show. Rehearsals must have been easy to schedule.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:11 I was thinking about that. I suspect there was as much product placement then as there is now.
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Sip sip
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is an interesting character. He's a bit of a drunk, at first.
	9:14pm David in California: ↳ Song: ""The Donna Dunham Case"" by "Candy Matson" Hello, Austin. I like that it was not only set in San Francisco, but recorded at San Francisco Radio City: bayarearadio.org...
	9:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 definitely Veronica Lake: www.glamamor.com...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is also characterized in a very interesting way for 1949. While never direct, there is a bit of a "Smithers" thing happening with him.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Ahhh, of course. Good eye!
	9:16pm Cp304: Lol " how delightful" ..how dull
	9:17pm Charles: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Dang Mr Fab, you got quite the eye :o
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Tomorrow I start my war story.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Charles @9:17 Not really! Just always thought that Ms Lake was a real babe. She's been in some fave movies, so i recognized her right away.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: "Present ourselves as man and wife." "No, that'll never work." Wa, wa.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The unnamable room
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:14 Yes! KNBC was the SF affiliate, and it really was a local show, for most of the run. I think the syndicated it to some stations, but not many, as I understand it.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: "Return to the arms of Bacchus."
	9:26pm Charles: I like picturing him with big, flashy, basketball shoes on.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt used to be in the British army but now lives in San Fransisco, as a photographer. He drops more tid-bits about his "bachelor" lifestyle throughout the show.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:26 I love that image.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: Oh, jeez - guy's just been killed in front of him, and his first thought is martinis!
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Charles @9:26 I was thinking about sandshoes
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Later, he sobers up, and there's a lot of hay made about how he usually winds up at bars, and can't drink.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 When Candy meets him at the beginning of this episode, he was already deep in, "the arms of Bacchus," so he was drunk going into this adventure. He was probably trying to keep his buzz on, and finally had a chance.
	9:33pm Charles: Adventure, intrigue, drinking, organs! It was a fun show.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:33 That was just the Pilot. The other shows get better.
	9:34pm Cp304: Them jeans.. kinda like em.. is there there anymore room for me.. in them jeans
	9:34pm Charles: Crazy to think so many episodes are lost to time..
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: This exchange about Sailors jeans in a "runner" that they only occasionally reference: Sailor dressed in mens clothes, and is essentially a "tom boy," by 50's standards. Slate is often "razzing" her about her clothes. And yet... he's still very attracted to her in the mens clothes...
	9:35pm Charles: ↳ Cp304 @9:34 I didn't check but surely that's on Bogie's IMDB quotes page.
	9:36pm Cp304: ↳ Charles @9:35 Hahaha
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 It bums me out. I love Candy Matson, but it was essentially a two-person operation, at a local station in SF, so no one was being as careful about archiving as other businesses were. Candy is really a very low-tech operation, compared to Bold Venture, or Box 13. (Live music, live SFX, live script reads, no "post-production.")
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Trafficking with a deadly end
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: The sound quality of this episode is not 100% There's some weird distortion, and you can hear a lot of crackle. But considering the things we don't have... I guess we're lucky.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Going to turn in soon. Getting sleepy
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Sleep well! We're doing all videos tomorrow, if you can stay up that late!
	9:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ill try
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I was recently gifted a record recorded in 1947, of my grandmother, singing. The sound is terrible, it is very hard to heard almost anything... but it's the only record like that that I have, so I put up with a lot of terrible sound just to listen to it.
	9:44pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Wow that's neat!
	9:44pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Sound quality is good here Capt
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:44 I'm gonna feature it on my show in a couple weeks, along with a story about it, and some other related content. But that record is four and a half minutes of barely audible music... with a lot of surface noise... felt I should put a little context around it before I just "PLAY" it.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: I have probably threatened to do this before, but I really need to do a King Moses super-cut, making his song much longer...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: "I do not own a doctor's couch. I only have a guitar and a Calypso song." Apparently, only one, King Moses. But at least its a good song.
	9:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 It was really cool! Love the wise-cracking private eye using her womanly wiles to fight crime. Really unique twist on the whole hard-boiled PI trope. Looking forward to future episodes.
	9:54pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Well, this is Lauren Bacall we’re talking about. She could wear a potato sack and it’d be HOT.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:54 Agreed!
	9:54pm Cp304: That dudes gotta tommy!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 There's a few other good female radio detectives, but I think Candy is the best.
	9:55pm Cp304: ↳ Mr Fab @9:54 Yeah, she can get it!
	9:56pm Cp304: That skit kinda sounded like schemp meditation tape
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Plus, she was 25 years younger than Bogie. So I’m sure he wasn’t going to complain.
	9:57pm Cp304: Well
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Precisely. I sort of didn't realize that when I was younger, and was astonished at how good she looked for so long. Then I realized: well, she was VERY young in her first movie...
	9:58pm Cp304: He didn't notice.. sure
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Yes... THAT David Rose...
	10:01pm wenzo: Hellooo Meeeeester Austin
	10:01pm wenzo: Helloooo peeeeeeeoplez
	10:04pm Cp304: I'll testit
	10:08pm wenzo: I look up to some drunks… W. C Fields… ?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:08 Fields was an exception. I was just thinking about working my way through his movies again.
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: Tuned in and enjoying the show! Candy was a real darn treat!!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 Heather played against a character named Candy Matson in a radio drama I wrote... Heather's character was named Jonni Thunder, another detective.
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 That was so much fun!!!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Empire of The Air Part 5" by "Ken Burns" I had ordered this DVD, as I love this documentary and I didn't want to just buy a digital copy and it wasn't easy to find streaming anywhere. Anyway, I misplaced the DVD for a month, just before I was planning on using it for these shows. I was very happy that it turned up without me having to tear apart the entire Lava Lamp Lounge.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Part of me was tempted to pick Roxor as one of my "villains" for this coming Sunday... but I would end up transcribing those scripts, and I'm not up for that.
	10:19pm Cp304: I'm pretty sure my ole Uncle Frank was a Cleveland hit man.. even tho he had one of those little dogs..
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:19 Do we all have an Uncle Frank from Cleveland? Not sure what my uncle frank did, but... maybe it's the same Frank?
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Oh that would have been good. Possibly a text to speech app might be useful to try?
	10:21pm Cp304: Purple street gang I thonk
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Hmmmmm...
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Fun experiment, if nothing else? Oops, speech to text, I meant, of course!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:21 Seems unlikely. I don't know much about my Uncle Frank, but I think he was a farmer.
	10:23pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Well, if he drove a grand Marquis..just sayin
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:23 Ha! Maybe a Grand Marquis Tractor...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Parade"" by "X-Minus One" Another dose of Cold War magic from X-Minus 1.
	10:31pm Mr Fab: I hear Don Pardo and think I’m watching SNL…
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: After getting "The Voice of God" himself, Norman Rose, to be the announcer for Dimension X, X-Minus 1 had Don Pardo, initially... But the show isn't able to settle on an announcer, so Pardo won't be the last one on this show.
	10:32pm Cp304: Ha, "that was of lettuce"
	10:33pm Cp304: *wad
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:31 "The Parade" was a script that was adapted for Dimension X, but this version is revised, with slightly different characterization, and there's a few additional beats that are sort of newish. This was a popular show, so it makes sense that they would want to re-use this script.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: $1,000,000 dollars in 1955 would be worth $11,262,537.31 in 2023.
	10:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I thought it seemed familiar.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:35 I think we were typing that at the same time!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: "Spend like you're doing to the electric chair." Gulp.
	10:36pm Mr Fab: “How are you fixed for midgets?” “I got midgets” Haha, why I love OTR.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:36 I was thinking of cutting that, and playing it against Johnny Depp saying, "Transvestites! I need transvestites!" from Ed Wood.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I love that!
	10:38pm Cp304: Oh that commish
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 It's been too long since I've done some weird cut-ups.
	10:39pm Mr Fab: Dig this mad-men patter. Can’t go wrong with an ad agency parody
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 And this is from the mid-50's, too! So great.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: As with most of the X-Minus 1 run, the sound quality is a lot better than it was with the Dimension X run. While there are still some odd episodes, here and there, that are not great, it's incredible what five years can make. By 1955, the technology to make better transcription discs, and the notion that they should be saved (since people were already noticing that shows from the 30's were already gone) was starting to get around. Serious preservation efforts wouldn't happen for a while longer, but among fans, it was clear that these shows needed to be saved.
	10:45pm Cp304: Was this pre war of the worlds?
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:45 No, this was 10+ years later. But clearly inspired by it!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: By 1955, there were already many established Sci-Fi 'zines, and The Futerians and other groups were having early Sci-Fi cons. Radio was absolutely a subject at these gatherings, and I'm sure the first preservation efforts came out of those groups.
	10:49pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Shut the window, I need to make a phone call
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: We have a lot of old Sci-Fi 'zines from the 50's at work (and a few older and newer, too), and I have yet to find any with stories about radio shows, but... the sampling I've been able to review is very small, compared to all the stuff that is out there. If anyone has seen any contemporary 'zines that talk about sci-fi radio of the 50's, I would be curious!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: "Are you in the bag?"
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Too expensive and too fantastic." Just wait until Marvel Movies are popular.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: This is so full of Cold War paranoia.
	10:53pm Cp304: Smack!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: While this story is great, these scenes between when she screamed earlier, and the very end, all seem superfluous. Seems pretty clear that everything is very bad, now.
	10:54pm Cp304: Flatter than a fried egg he said
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Tomaine Candy. Gross. Tomaine: A basic nitrogenous organic compound produced by bacterial putrefaction of protein.
	10:56pm Cp304: Ugh
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We might end almost on time this week!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Hurk
	10:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Cp304 @10:45 “The product…is…death…”
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: It's an idea from the show, not mine! I'm just underlining it because that line always gets a reaction from me.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: A super grim ending!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Probably one of the most "Twilight Zone" style stories on the show.
	10:59pm Cp304: I'm spooked out
	10:59pm Mr Fab: Well, if you’re gonna go out, might as well go out with a jolly parade.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! I do love this show, and I love listening with you all!
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show!!!
	11:00pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Thanks rich
	11:01pm Mr Fab: THANK…Thank…thank…YOU…you..!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 24, 2023

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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April 24, 2023: Episode #53

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Candy Matson	"The Donna Dunham Case"	30 June 1949	KNBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The Mystery of The Mary K"	9 July 1951	Santana Productions	0:30:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jan August	Misirlou "Misirlou" by "Jan August"			1:01:19 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 5	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:09:27 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Chandu Escapes"	6 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:15:24 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Parade" ""The Parade"" by "X-Minus One"	1 May 1955	NBC Radio	1:28:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 9:01pm WR: Halo.
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	9:01pm Charles: Alright, new show!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:01 Greetings!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 As usual, great to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 One of my fave, short-run shows I have in the hopper.
	9:03pm Cp304: Heya Austin
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:03 Greetings, Cp304! It's been a little while...
	9:04pm Charles: Three of the Original Four behind us. Chandu is eternal.
	9:04pm Mr Fab: Right on, been looking forward to this. Did Veronica Lake play her in the movies or sumthin?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 That would be kind of funny, to just keep running chandu, over and over again, until the end of time?
	9:05pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Werk and stuff
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 I don't think there was ever a film or TV version of Candy, but... there should have been.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:05 "Same. As. It. Ever. Was..."
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: So, in the first few minutes, the bartender assumed she was a "Lady of The Night." This show is a little... dark sometimes.
	9:06pm Cp304: A good ole tonic always get ya right
	9:07pm Charles: Digging the music.
	9:08pm Cp304: ↳ Charles @9:07 Those organs
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Candy Matson featured LIVE ORGAN for each episode, but these were performed live, they captured on transcription disc. However... only 14 of the 92 aired episodes exist in the modern era. I'm trying to track down some of the scripts that we don't have recordings of... I think we should do readings of them for Pledge Drives!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: "I already have a sponsor." The first of many lines that break the 4th wall in this show.
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I just asked because that looks like Veronica Lake in the pic there.
	9:11pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Add live organ to the mix and that's easily worth a Y3K pledge!
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Max Factor must have paid well for that line
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 I believe that's supposed to be Natalie... but sometimes the internet can be very misleading.
	9:12pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Dang Austin
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: All 92 episodes of this show were written, produced, and directed by Monty Masters... the husband of the star of the show. Rehearsals must have been easy to schedule.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:11 I was thinking about that. I suspect there was as much product placement then as there is now.
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Sip sip
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is an interesting character. He's a bit of a drunk, at first.
	9:14pm David in California: ↳ Song: ""The Donna Dunham Case"" by "Candy Matson" Hello, Austin. I like that it was not only set in San Francisco, but recorded at San Francisco Radio City: bayarearadio.org...
	9:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 definitely Veronica Lake: www.glamamor.com...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is also characterized in a very interesting way for 1949. While never direct, there is a bit of a "Smithers" thing happening with him.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Ahhh, of course. Good eye!
	9:16pm Cp304: Lol " how delightful" ..how dull
	9:17pm Charles: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Dang Mr Fab, you got quite the eye :o
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Tomorrow I start my war story.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Charles @9:17 Not really! Just always thought that Ms Lake was a real babe. She's been in some fave movies, so i recognized her right away.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: "Present ourselves as man and wife." "No, that'll never work." Wa, wa.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The unnamable room
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @9:14 Yes! KNBC was the SF affiliate, and it really was a local show, for most of the run. I think the syndicated it to some stations, but not many, as I understand it.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: "Return to the arms of Bacchus."
	9:26pm Charles: I like picturing him with big, flashy, basketball shoes on.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt used to be in the British army but now lives in San Fransisco, as a photographer. He drops more tid-bits about his "bachelor" lifestyle throughout the show.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:26 I love that image.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: Oh, jeez - guy's just been killed in front of him, and his first thought is martinis!
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Charles @9:26 I was thinking about sandshoes
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Later, he sobers up, and there's a lot of hay made about how he usually winds up at bars, and can't drink.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 When Candy meets him at the beginning of this episode, he was already deep in, "the arms of Bacchus," so he was drunk going into this adventure. He was probably trying to keep his buzz on, and finally had a chance.
	9:33pm Charles: Adventure, intrigue, drinking, organs! It was a fun show.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:33 That was just the Pilot. The other shows get better.
	9:34pm Cp304: Them jeans.. kinda like em.. is there there anymore room for me.. in them jeans
	9:34pm Charles: Crazy to think so many episodes are lost to time..
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: This exchange about Sailors jeans in a "runner" that they only occasionally reference: Sailor dressed in mens clothes, and is essentially a "tom boy," by 50's standards. Slate is often "razzing" her about her clothes. And yet... he's still very attracted to her in the mens clothes...
	9:35pm Charles: ↳ Cp304 @9:34 I didn't check but surely that's on Bogie's IMDB quotes page.
	9:36pm Cp304: ↳ Charles @9:35 Hahaha
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 It bums me out. I love Candy Matson, but it was essentially a two-person operation, at a local station in SF, so no one was being as careful about archiving as other businesses were. Candy is really a very low-tech operation, compared to Bold Venture, or Box 13. (Live music, live SFX, live script reads, no "post-production.")
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Trafficking with a deadly end
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: The sound quality of this episode is not 100% There's some weird distortion, and you can hear a lot of crackle. But considering the things we don't have... I guess we're lucky.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Going to turn in soon. Getting sleepy
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Sleep well! We're doing all videos tomorrow, if you can stay up that late!
	9:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ill try
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I was recently gifted a record recorded in 1947, of my grandmother, singing. The sound is terrible, it is very hard to heard almost anything... but it's the only record like that that I have, so I put up with a lot of terrible sound just to listen to it.
	9:44pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Wow that's neat!
	9:44pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Sound quality is good here Capt
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:44 I'm gonna feature it on my show in a couple weeks, along with a story about it, and some other related content. But that record is four and a half minutes of barely audible music... with a lot of surface noise... felt I should put a little context around it before I just "PLAY" it.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: I have probably threatened to do this before, but I really need to do a King Moses super-cut, making his song much longer...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: "I do not own a doctor's couch. I only have a guitar and a Calypso song." Apparently, only one, King Moses. But at least its a good song.
	9:52pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 It was really cool! Love the wise-cracking private eye using her womanly wiles to fight crime. Really unique twist on the whole hard-boiled PI trope. Looking forward to future episodes.
	9:54pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Well, this is Lauren Bacall we’re talking about. She could wear a potato sack and it’d be HOT.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:54 Agreed!
	9:54pm Cp304: That dudes gotta tommy!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:52 There's a few other good female radio detectives, but I think Candy is the best.
	9:55pm Cp304: ↳ Mr Fab @9:54 Yeah, she can get it!
	9:56pm Cp304: That skit kinda sounded like schemp meditation tape
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Plus, she was 25 years younger than Bogie. So I’m sure he wasn’t going to complain.
	9:57pm Cp304: Well
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 Precisely. I sort of didn't realize that when I was younger, and was astonished at how good she looked for so long. Then I realized: well, she was VERY young in her first movie...
	9:58pm Cp304: He didn't notice.. sure
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Yes... THAT David Rose...
	10:01pm wenzo: Hellooo Meeeeester Austin
	10:01pm wenzo: Helloooo peeeeeeeoplez
	10:04pm Cp304: I'll testit
	10:08pm wenzo: I look up to some drunks… W. C Fields… ?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:08 Fields was an exception. I was just thinking about working my way through his movies again.
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: Tuned in and enjoying the show! Candy was a real darn treat!!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 Heather played against a character named Candy Matson in a radio drama I wrote... Heather's character was named Jonni Thunder, another detective.
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 That was so much fun!!!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Empire of The Air Part 5" by "Ken Burns" I had ordered this DVD, as I love this documentary and I didn't want to just buy a digital copy and it wasn't easy to find streaming anywhere. Anyway, I misplaced the DVD for a month, just before I was planning on using it for these shows. I was very happy that it turned up without me having to tear apart the entire Lava Lamp Lounge.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Part of me was tempted to pick Roxor as one of my "villains" for this coming Sunday... but I would end up transcribing those scripts, and I'm not up for that.
	10:19pm Cp304: I'm pretty sure my ole Uncle Frank was a Cleveland hit man.. even tho he had one of those little dogs..
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:19 Do we all have an Uncle Frank from Cleveland? Not sure what my uncle frank did, but... maybe it's the same Frank?
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Oh that would have been good. Possibly a text to speech app might be useful to try?
	10:21pm Cp304: Purple street gang I thonk
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Hmmmmm...
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Fun experiment, if nothing else? Oops, speech to text, I meant, of course!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:21 Seems unlikely. I don't know much about my Uncle Frank, but I think he was a farmer.
	10:23pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Well, if he drove a grand Marquis..just sayin
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:23 Ha! Maybe a Grand Marquis Tractor...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Parade"" by "X-Minus One" Another dose of Cold War magic from X-Minus 1.
	10:31pm Mr Fab: I hear Don Pardo and think I’m watching SNL…
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: After getting "The Voice of God" himself, Norman Rose, to be the announcer for Dimension X, X-Minus 1 had Don Pardo, initially... But the show isn't able to settle on an announcer, so Pardo won't be the last one on this show.
	10:32pm Cp304: Ha, "that was of lettuce"
	10:33pm Cp304: *wad
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:31 "The Parade" was a script that was adapted for Dimension X, but this version is revised, with slightly different characterization, and there's a few additional beats that are sort of newish. This was a popular show, so it makes sense that they would want to re-use this script.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: $1,000,000 dollars in 1955 would be worth $11,262,537.31 in 2023.
	10:35pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I thought it seemed familiar.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:35 I think we were typing that at the same time!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: "Spend like you're doing to the electric chair." Gulp.
	10:36pm Mr Fab: “How are you fixed for midgets?” “I got midgets” Haha, why I love OTR.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:36 I was thinking of cutting that, and playing it against Johnny Depp saying, "Transvestites! I need transvestites!" from Ed Wood.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I love that!
	10:38pm Cp304: Oh that commish
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 It's been too long since I've done some weird cut-ups.
	10:39pm Mr Fab: Dig this mad-men patter. Can’t go wrong with an ad agency parody
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 And this is from the mid-50's, too! So great.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: As with most of the X-Minus 1 run, the sound quality is a lot better than it was with the Dimension X run. While there are still some odd episodes, here and there, that are not great, it's incredible what five years can make. By 1955, the technology to make better transcription discs, and the notion that they should be saved (since people were already noticing that shows from the 30's were already gone) was starting to get around. Serious preservation efforts wouldn't happen for a while longer, but among fans, it was clear that these shows needed to be saved.
	10:45pm Cp304: Was this pre war of the worlds?
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:45 No, this was 10+ years later. But clearly inspired by it!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: By 1955, there were already many established Sci-Fi 'zines, and The Futerians and other groups were having early Sci-Fi cons. Radio was absolutely a subject at these gatherings, and I'm sure the first preservation efforts came out of those groups.
	10:49pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Shut the window, I need to make a phone call
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: We have a lot of old Sci-Fi 'zines from the 50's at work (and a few older and newer, too), and I have yet to find any with stories about radio shows, but... the sampling I've been able to review is very small, compared to all the stuff that is out there. If anyone has seen any contemporary 'zines that talk about sci-fi radio of the 50's, I would be curious!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: "Are you in the bag?"
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Too expensive and too fantastic." Just wait until Marvel Movies are popular.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: This is so full of Cold War paranoia.
	10:53pm Cp304: Smack!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: While this story is great, these scenes between when she screamed earlier, and the very end, all seem superfluous. Seems pretty clear that everything is very bad, now.
	10:54pm Cp304: Flatter than a fried egg he said
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Tomaine Candy. Gross. Tomaine: A basic nitrogenous organic compound produced by bacterial putrefaction of protein.
	10:56pm Cp304: Ugh
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We might end almost on time this week!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Hurk
	10:57pm Mr Fab: ↳ Cp304 @10:45 “The product…is…death…”
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: It's an idea from the show, not mine! I'm just underlining it because that line always gets a reaction from me.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: A super grim ending!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Probably one of the most "Twilight Zone" style stories on the show.
	10:59pm Cp304: I'm spooked out
	10:59pm Mr Fab: Well, if you’re gonna go out, might as well go out with a jolly parade.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! I do love this show, and I love listening with you all!
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show!!!
	11:00pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Thanks rich
	11:01pm Mr Fab: THANK…Thank…thank…YOU…you..!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 24, 2023

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